Zahedan, IRNA – Iranian healthcare workers have injected non-Iranian children in Zahedan, the capital city of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, with more than 23,000 measles and rubella vaccines as well as 25,000 booster polio vaccines.

Mahmoud Fatemi, the head of the Healthcare Center of Zahedan, told IRNA on Sunday that the vaccination project was implemented by numerous healthcare personnel in 53 urban and 45 rural healthcare centers of Zahedan county from December 31, 2022, to January 31, 2023.

The vaccination project was held in cooperation with the infectious disease management center of the Ministry of Health as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Fatemi noted.

The organizers of the project also held 11 training workshops for healthcare staff and students, he added.

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